Kadiweu language

Kadiweu
Basic information
Region	Brazil Mato Grosso do Sul
Number of speakers	1200–1800
Language family	Mataco-Guaicuru Guaicuruan Kadiwéu branch Kadiwéu
Language codes
ISO 639-1	None
ISO 639-2	—
ISO 639-3	kbc

Kadiweu is a Guaicuruan language spoken by the 1,200–1,800 Kadiweu of Brazil. It is mainly a subject-verb-object language, and has an ISO 639-3 code of kbc.

The Kadiweu language is spoken by about 1,000 Native Americans distributed over an area of 5,380 km² near Bodoquena in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul in Brazil.

References

• Kadiweu language on Wikipedia
• Entry for Kadiweu at Ethnologue
• http://www.language-museum.com/k/kadiweu.htm

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